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P. H. HICKMAN.

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APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2, I915.

Patented Dec. 5, 1916.

WI TNE 88158:

INVENTOR ,4 TTORIV E Y the following is a specification.

'Fig. 7 is a detail view of the link connecyieldably 1nounted. 5O 7 BESTAVAIFLABLE CQp UNITED I sTA Es P TEN OFFICE.

H. HICKMAVN, or FIRVINGTON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF 'ro PATRICK THOMAS A LOYSIUS HICKMAN, OF IRVINGTON, NEW JERSEY.

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, Patented Dec. 5, 1916. Application filed February 2, 1915. Serial No. 5,745.

* Specification of Letters Patent.

section 13. A socket. 11 is formed in the T0 allwhom it may concern. Y i

H. HICKMAN, heel portion, whlch is adapted to coincide Be it known that I, PATRICK a citizen of the United States, residing at 'With the socket 15 formed in the toe por- Irvington, in the county of Essex'and'State tion, there being a recess 16' formed in the of New Jersey, have invented certain new expansible and contractible toe portion 13 and useful Improvements in Lasts, of which for a purpose presently explained.

p The toe and heel portions are swingingly This invention relates to shoe lasts. connected together in a manner to be later One object is to provide a shoe lastparticuexplained, theymeeting along thecurved line larlv adapted for relasting purposes and 17. "The heel portion is limited in its upwhich embodies toe and heel portions swingward swing relative to the toe portion by inglyconnected together,oneof said portions "the shoulders 18 and 19 respectively. The

being expansible and'contractible under the heel portion preferably has a socket 20 influence of the connection between the toe adapted to take a sleeve 21 designed to reand heel portions. i ceive a suitableimplement (not shown) to Another object resides in the provision of facilitate swinging of the heel portion relative to the toe portion in the use of the last.

a shoe last embodying, among other char- To swingingly connect the toe and heel acteristics, toe and heel portions which have swinging movement relative to each other, with one portion formed to expand and conformed plate 22. This plate is rigidly setract when the toe and heel portions are cured in the socket 14 of the heel portion by swung in opposite directions relative to each means of Suitable fastenings 23, and it has othe z curved slots 24 and 25 arranged concentric With the above and other objects in view with the curve 17, and which slots slidably the present invention consists in the combiembrace pins 26 and 27 respectively, whereby nation and arrangement of parts hereinthe swinging plate, when swung by the heel after more fully described, illustrated in the portion 11, moves in an are parallel with the accompanying drawings, and particularly arc of the curvature 17. This plate 22 is pointed out in the appended claim, it being pivoted in cars 28 of the sleeve 29, slidably understood that changes may be made in the mounted in an extension 30 of the aforesaid shape, size, materials, proportions and minor socket 15 in the toe portion. This sleeve has details without departing from the spirit an internal annular shoulder .31, against of the invention or sacrificing any of the which and the inner end of saidsocket exadvantages of the invention. tension 30 bears a spring 32, which provides In the drawings :Figure- 1 is a view, for a yieldable mounting of the sleeve 28 in partly in elevation and partly in section, the socket extension 30. A link 33 is pivoted illustrating the last expanded. Fig 2 is a at 34, to the short nose portion 35 of the similar view, illustrating the last-contracted. plate 22, and at its opposite end the link 33 Fig. 3 is a detail view of the connecting is pivotally mounted at 36 in the socket 16 plate. Fig. 1 is an edge view of the 0011- of the expansible and contractible extension necting plate. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the 13 of the toe portion. When the toe and sleeve to which the plate is pivotally conheel portions are expanded, as shown in Fig.

1, and which is the position of these parts when the last is used to last or relast a shoe, tion between the plate and the expansible the spring 32 forces the sleeve'28 toward the part of the toe portion. Fig. 8 is an edge heel portion of the last. In this position of view of the link.- Fig. 9 is a detail the parts, the link connection 33 between the view of the spring by which the sleeve is plate 22 and the expansible and contractible extension 13 throws said extension away Referring more particularly to the accomfrom the bodyof the toe portion to its expanying drawings,the reference characters panded position, the outward expansion of 10 and 11 indicate the toe and heel portionsJhthe extension 13, or course, being limited by nected. Fig. 6 is an end view of the sleeve.

respectively. The toe portion is preferably the length of the link 33. slitted, as indicated at 12, to provide the toe From the foregoingit will be seen that I portion with an expansible and contractible provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and

portions together I, employ a peculiarly BEST AV efiicient device, particularly serviceable for relasting purposes, but it will be understood with the ex ansible section of the toe portion, a barre one terminal of which is bifurthat the improvement is equally applicable "gated, said barrel extending within the toe for ordinary lasting purposes.

What is claimed is A last including a toe portion, a heel -porportion, the projection arranged substantially centrally of the plate extending between the bifurcations of said barrel, a pivot pin tion, the toe portion having an expansi'b passing through said bifurcations and said and contractible section, said toe and hee portions meeting upon a curve, a plate fixed to the heel portion and entering a recess formed in the toe portion, said plate being formed with arcuate slots, pins carried by the toe portion and extending through said slots, the edge of said plate which is dis osed within the recess of the toe portion ing formed with spaced apertured rojections, one of said projections being disposed at substantially the center of the plate and the other at the upper edge of the plate, a link connecting the last mentioned projection extensions and a sprin housed by the barrel and contacting with e same, said spring exerting pressure on said plate through the medium of the barrel to maintain the heel and toe portions in their extended position and the expansi section of the toe portion in its expand "ti In testimonv whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two wi PATRICK H. HICKMAN. Witn:

Em A. Kean, Arum A. Rmmo.

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